The Orwellian Re-Branding of “Mass Surveillance” as Merely “Bulk Collection”

Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled “torture”with the Orwellian euphemism“enhanced interrogation techniques” to make it more palatable, thegovernments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand “mass surveillance” as “bulk collection” in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal). In the past several weeks, this is the clearly coordinated theme that has arisen in theU.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as the last d...